1024 Compositae. 
591. (51.) Atractylis Linn. 
Heads homogamous, many-flowered. Involucre double, the inner 
scales in many rows, not rayed. Receptacle chaffy, pales many-cleft. 
Flowers perfect, uniform, or the outer ones radiate, strap-shaped. 
Filaments free, with bearded appendages. Style with 2, very short, 
convergent lobes. Achenes terete, silky-hairy, hilum at the base. 
Pappus in 1 row of simple, feathery pales united at the base. — 
Annual or perennial herbs, with aspect of Carlina. 
A small genus widely spread in the Mediterranean region. 
A. Outer flowers ligulate, radiate ....... 1 AL flavaz 
B. Flowers all tubular. 
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WW: Heads oblong’. 0 2S 4 tree eee 3. A. cancellata. 
1422. (1.) Atractylis flava Desf. Flor. Atlant. I] (1798), p. 254. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IU, p. 452. — Coss. and Kral. in Soc. Bot. France. 1V, 
p. 360. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Hl. Flor. d’Eg., p.93 no.594. — Aschers. 
Flor. Rhinocol., p.799 no. 154. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Kg., 
p. 248. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. Marmaric., p. 655 no. 181. 
— A perennial plant 10—20 cm high or rarely somewhat more, 
appressed-wolly, branching from the neck, branches ascending or 
diffuse. Leaves leathery, lanceolate-linear, sinuate-lobed, prickly. 
Heads terminal, solitary, 2 cm long, ovate; leaves of the outer 
involucre twice as long as the head; scales of the inner involucre 
woolly, broad ovate to linear-lanceolate, abruptly prickly-tipped; 
flowerets yellow, the rays one-half longer than the others. — Flow. 
February to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqa; Dakalla; Mariut; Behig; Alexandria- 
West and -East; Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta; 
Sheykh Djubaiah; Bassa; Sath; el-‘Arish. — D. 1. D. i. D. a. sept. 
Not rare in the desert. 
Local name: khosherif (Schweinfurth); freykh (Ascherson); 
dobbari (Schweinfurth). 
Also known from Tunisia, Tripolitania and Arabia Petraea. 
var. citrina Muschler comb. nov. — Atractylis flava var. glabres- 
cens. Boiss. Flor. Or. HI (1875), p. 452. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 93 no. 594. —. Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 248. — Atractylis citrina Coss. and Kral. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Franc. IV, (1857), p. 361. — Leaves glabrescent or glabrous; outer 
scales of the involucre narrower. — Flow. March to April. 
D. a. sept. “Deserta Thebaidis inferioris” (Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p.452). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 'Tripolitania and Arabi Petraea, 
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